Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…
Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah? What does she press against?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: sing, drop, press
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Safe | safe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Nightingale | det |
| 4 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Nightingale | case |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | PART | _ | 7 sing | mark |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Safe | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 drops | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drops | nsubj |
| 10 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sing | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drops | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 sing | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Safe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | infinitive | the Nightingale | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | drop | present | Nightingale | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What does she press against?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 press | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 press | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 press | nsubj |
| 4 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 press | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 press | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | present · do-support | Nightingale | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Spine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bush | det |
| 2 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A thorn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thorn | det |
| 2 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 branch | det |
| 2 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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